Privacy Policy

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

If you do submit personal information by services or completing a web form registration, for example, you can be assured that we will use your personal information only to support your continuing relationship with EKO.

We wish to help you make informed decisions, so please take a few moments to read the sections below and learn how we may use your personal information.

Using your personal information

Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.

We may use your personal information to:

administer our website

personalise our website for you

enable your use of the services available on our website

send you non-marketing commercial communications

send you email notifications that you have specifically requested

send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter)

send you marketing communications relating to our business which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications)

provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information)

deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website

keep our website secure and prevent fraud

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.

Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website, and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.

We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party’s direct marketing.

Disclosing personal information

We may disclose your personal information to, any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;

in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);

to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

International data transfers

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

Retaining personal information

This Section sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.

Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

Security of your personal information

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password-and firewall-protected) servers.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

Third party websites

Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.

We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

Third party systems

EKO uses Mailchimp, Woocomerce and Xero to store customer data. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

Updating information

Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

Collecting personal information

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (including, your name and email address)

information that you post to our website for publication on the internet (including, your username and the content of your posts)

information contained in or relating to any communications that you send to us or send through our website (including, the communication content and meta data associated with the communication)

any other personal information that you choose to send to us Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy as we deem necessary, or as may be required by law. Any changes will be immediately posted on Our Site and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of Our Site following the alterations. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective as of the day they are posted. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up-to-date.

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As one of the very few readers who have probably made it through our entire Privacy Policy, well done and we admire you. We are a small feel good brand and like to hear from customers, so feel free to get in touch if you have any further questions, queries or just want to say hello.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about Our Site or this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at info@earthkindoriginals.co.uk, by telephone on 01736 787177, or by post at EKO HQ, 1 Regent Terrace, St.Just, Cornwall, TR19 7LE, United Kingdom. Please ensure that your query is clear, particularly if it is a request for information about the data we hold about you.